Written answers

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Department of Justice and Equality

Deportation Orders

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will reconsider a deportation order issued in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40166/12]

Photo of Alan ShatterAlan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned was granted temporary permission to remain in the State under stamp 4 conditions for an initial one year period on 10 June, 2002, on the basis that she was part of a family unit where the parents had been granted residency on the basis of parentage of an Irish citizen child. This permission appears to have been renewed on a regular basis by her local Immigration Officer until March 2010. I am informed that when she attended the registration office of the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) in May 2010, she was advised to contact my officials in the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) regarding same. However it appears that the next contact from the person concerned was in March 2012 when she presented to her local Immigration Officer. She was refused registration on this occasion as she has been out of permission since March 2010. The local Immigration Officer advised her to write to INIS outlining her situation prior to renewal of registration. I am informed that she was given this direction by him on 26 August 2012. To date no communication has been received from her by INIS. I would advise the person concerned to write to my officials at the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, PO Box 10003, Dublin 1, with a formal request to regularise her status in the State. On receipt of this request, her case will then be examined by the relevant officials in INIS. Once a decision has been made, this decision and the consequences of the decision will be conveyed in writing to the person concerned. I am informed that the person concerned is not the subject of a deportation order.

Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to INIS by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the Parliamentary Questions process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in cases where the response from INIS is, in the Deputy’s view, inadequate or too long awaited.

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